Texas Storm Toll, Trump's Foreign Policy, Supreme Court Allows Federal Layoffs
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🗓️ 9 July 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Residents of Central Texas are still dealing with the aftermath of last week's catastrophic flooding. |
| 0:07.6 | Yes, it's hard, but we're strong. We'll rebuild again. |
| 0:11.1 | Does the area's flood warning system need improvement? |
| 0:14.1 | I'm Michelle Martin with A. Martinez, and this is up first from NPR News. |
| 0:20.9 | President Trump met twice with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu at the White House. |
| 0:25.5 | The president says discussion focused mainly on Gaza. |
| 0:28.3 | Gaza is a tragic, it's a tragedy. |
| 0:31.8 | It's a tragedy. |
| 0:33.3 | And he wants to get it solved and I want to get it solved. |
| 0:36.0 | Can they hash out a ceasefire agreement that Israel and Hamas will both accept? |
| 0:40.2 | And the Supreme Court will, for now, allow the Trump administration to move ahead with plans for mass layoffs of federal workers. |
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| 1:19.4 | In Texas, at least 109 people have been killed by floods that started on the 4th of July. |
| 1:25.9 | More than 160 people are known to be missing. Many of the dead are children. Most summer camp where questions are now being raised about what |
| 1:27.7 | emergency plans were in place. Houston Public Media's Dominic Anthony Walsh spent the last few days |
| 1:33.9 | in Kerr County. That's along the Guadalupe River. Dominic, it's been five days since the flooding. |
| 1:39.3 | What's it looked like there? It's grim. State officials have not yet said that they're shifting from search and rescue |
| 1:45.5 | to recovery, but they confirmed yesterday that the last time first responders found someone alive |
| 1:51.4 | was Friday. Texas Governor Greg Abbott said yesterday that 161 people are missing. The effort to |
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